ECE Spotlight

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February

Graduate Students, News

ECE graduate students cut path forward with innovative invention

Electrical and computer engineering graduate students, Sam Marcom and Dario Muller, and their mechanical engineering teammate, Josh Cooper, are laying the groundwork for the future of the manufacturing industry. Their new innovative invention is intend …

February 3, 2023 Jack Boden

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January

News

ECE GSA Research Symposium 2023 Finalists

The 2023 ECE Graduate Research Symposium was hosted by the ECE Graduate Student Association on January 20.

January 20, 2023 Isabella Mormando

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January

News

ECE Students Win Best Poster Award from CAEML

Priyank Kashyup and Yuejiang Wen each won the Best Poster Award at CAEML’s Fall 2022 Semiannual Meeting.

January 13, 2023 Isabella Mormando

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January

Graduate Students

Timothy Holder finds a field that pulls together many — but not all — of his interests

Timothy Holder has always felt pulled toward varying interests — medicine, wearable devices, racquetball, exploring new places and philosophy, to name a few.

January 11, 2023 Isabella Mormando

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January

Alumni

ECE Alum, Shree Nayar, awarded Okawa Prize for contributions to digital photography

ECE Alum, Shree Nayar, has changed the way visual information is captured and used by both machines and humans. He is honored with 2022 Okawa Prize.

January 5, 2023 Isabella Mormando

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January

Alumni, Awards, Faculty

ECE Professor and Alumna Receive IEEE-USA Award

Leda Lunardi, ECE Professor, and Alice Parker, ECE alumna, have received the IEEE-USA Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding and the Advancement of the Engineering Profession.

January 3, 2023 Isabella Mormando

Securing Cryptography in the Quantum Computing Era

DesignCon keynote will discuss challenges of developing cryptography standards that withstand quantum computing attacks. Keynote session speaker Aydin Aysu, Assistant Professor and Head of the Hardware Cybersecurity Research Lab (HECTOR) at Electrical …

January 27, 2023

ComEd and NC State receive $200,000 US DOE grant for SiC-based XFC project

Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd, a unit of Chicago-based energy provider Exelon Corp), in partnership with North Carolina State University’s FREEDM Systems Center, has been awarded a $200,000 federal research and development grant from the US Depart …

October 24, 2022

“A game changer”: With CHIPS Act, NC is poised for a new manufacturing boom

The new law includes $13.2 billion for research and the training of people to work in the development, design and manufacturing of semiconductor wafers and the chips that are built on them. The R&D funding could be a boon to North Carolina’s research u …

October 13, 2022

In race toward quantum computing, North Carolina takes center stage

Governments, businesses and universities worldwide are spending heavily to prepare for quantum. And in the past few years, the three corners of North Carolina’s Research Triangle—Duke University, North Carolina State University, and UNC—have each made …

October 6, 2022

Upcoming Seminar

Software-Defined Power Electronics

Dr. Matthias Preindl
Associate Professor, Columbia University
is speaking on February 3, 2023.

Upcoming Seminar

Interface Drive Organic and Flexible Electronics

Dr. Martin Thuo
Professor, NC State's Department of Materials Science & Engineering
is speaking on February 9, 2023.

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